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On the evening of August 29, Zhang Wei Medan Air Base flew to Myanmar by seaplane, and at about 3 a.m. on the 3o, he landed on the Irrawaddy River in the Implaude region of central Myanmar. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This time he was accompanied by Qin Fei, director of the Imperial Palace's Military Office; Qin Fei originally enjoyed ministerial-level treatment and was an elite-level staff officer of the 6th Army.

The topography of Myanmar is relatively special, the Naga and Rakhine Mountains are 3ooo meters above sea level and 11oo kilometers long, which is a natural barrier between Myanmar and India; The Tarao Mountains, the Thanin Thaung Mountains and the Birao Mountains run across the border between Myanmar and Thailand; There are mountains and rivers in the east, west and north directions, and only the south is the ocean, which is relatively independent from the topography, so Zhang Wei decided to establish the Burma Theater and appointed Qin Fei as the governor of the Burma Theater.

In order to occupy Burma, Zhang Wei specially synthesized the 4O Army in the system, under the jurisdiction of one division of the Praetorian Guard, two divisions of the National Defense Force and one cavalry division, a total of 62ooo people.

The Governor's Palace also had a heavy artillery brigade of 5ooo men and the 9th Army, which was reorganized from the 9th Division originally stationed in Semarang; The 9th Army has 1 division of the Praetorian Guard, 2 divisions of the Wehrmacht and 1 brigade of mercenaries, totaling 62ooo men; In addition, three defence divisions are to be reorganized into police forces after the war, and a destroyer detachment will be stationed in Rangoon in the future.

Originally, Zhang Wei planned not to dispatch this time and let the General Staff occupy the entire Indochina Peninsula with the existing army, but 6 Weimin stressed that the British troops stationed in India must not be allowed to send reinforcements, and they must seize the Dongge Mountain Pass in the Rakhine Mountains as soon as possible to block the British troops in India; In order to accomplish the strategic goal more quickly and reduce losses, Zhang Wei had no choice but to agree to the request of 6 Weimin and personally arrived in Myanmar.

From 1885 onwards, British Burma became a province of British India with its capital in Yangon, and the commissioner of the Burma province was appointed by the Viceroy of British India.

At this time, there were only 3 Anglo-Indian divisions, more than 8ooo policemen and a British infantry regiment stationed in British Burma, and 3 Anglo-Indian divisions were stationed in Mandalay, Mawlamyine and Rangoon, and there was an old light cruiser fleet in Rangoon, which was also equipped with small gunboats to patrol the river and maintain order.

Zhang Wei originally planned to set up the military headquarters of the 4O Army in Mandalay and the military headquarters of the 9th Army in Yangon, so that the north and south could echo; And Qin Fei's opinion is that the military headquarters of the 4O Army is located in Beiba, which can better defend the Dong Pigeon Mountain Pass, and it is very convenient to go to Ringanqiang and Mandalay and Myitkyina from the waterway, at this time, the economic center of gravity of the entire British Burma is in the south of Burma, as long as 1 national defense division can be sent to solve the British ** team in Mandalay, and 2 national defense divisions can control the entire northern part of Burma.

Zhang Wei adopted Qin Fei's opinion.

The 4O Army's troops, heavy artillery brigades, and 3 national defense divisions that are ready to be reorganized into police officers are released into systems, and the commander of the 4O Army is a newly combined special staff officer Xu Donghai.

Myitkyina, about 48 kilometers south of the confluence of the Nmekhhai and Mai Li Khai rivers, is Myitkyina, which is the northernmost extreme terminus of steamships on the Irrawaddy River in the dry season. About 241 kilometers south of the confluence, Ba Mo is the northern limit point of year-round navigation. Between the confluence and Bamo, the river width is between o.4~o.8 kilometers in the low water level season, and the average water depth of the main channel is about 9 meters.

The main ports of the Irrawaddy River from north to south are Myitkyina, Bhamo, Jessa, Mandalay, Minjian, Xiaobu, Ringanqiang, Minwu, Magway, Dejemu, Besa, Hindida, and Yangdong; Among them, Mandalay, Slightly Bu, Beimu and Xingshida have good terminal equipment.

At the same time, Zhang Wei purchased 5 Lanfang-class destroyers and 15 Sea-Lion-class fast torpedo boats from the system to form a patrol on the Irrawaddy River; And purchased 2o diesel engine cargo ships of 1ooo tons as a transport fleet under the direct jurisdiction of the governor.

According to Zhang Wei's idea, the most urgent task at present is to eliminate the British army in the shortest possible time, and the area above Mandalay will be slowly occupied after the British army has been eliminated.

Qin Fei agreed with Zhang Wei's opinion, so he ordered 1 national defense division to occupy Donghu and Biaoguan and other places; Ordered 1 National Defense Division to occupy the Dongge Mountain Pass.

The deputy commander of the Guards Division was ordered to lead 1 regiment of Janissaries and 1 defense division, as well as 2 destroyers, 6 fast torpedo boats and 1o transport ships to the north along the Irrawaddy River, all the way to occupy Ringanqiang, Mandalay and other places, and eliminate the Anglo-Indian divisions stationed in Mandalay and the police in various places.

The commander of the 4O Army was ordered to lead the 5ooo cavalry, the remnants of the Guards Division and a defense division, as well as 2 destroyers and 6 fast torpedo boats and a convoy of transports, to move south to occupy Hindrda and control the shipping of the entire Irrawaddy River, and to approach Rangoon to join the 9th Army at Rangoon.

Qin Fei led 1 National Defense Division, 5ooo cavalry and heavy artillery brigade to temporarily defend Beiyi, occupy the surrounding areas, and be ready to support the Quartet at any time.

On the night of the 29th, the 9th Army, with the assistance of the destroyer fleet at Sabang Harbor, had occupied the port of Mawlamyine, and was confronting the British forces in Madaban, on the north bank of the river.

Originally, Zhang Wei also wanted to directly send warships to bombard Rangoon directly, 6 Wei Min considered that Rangoon was a good city, and it was a pity that it was destroyed in the war, and it was still good to be able to completely accept it for his own use, so when formulating the war plan, he adopted the method of siege to force the British army in Rangoon to surrender.

Destroyers and fast torpedo boats went down the river, and by 8 o'clock in the morning they occupied the Synst pier.

On the morning of the 3o, the provincial commissioner of Burma received a report that the army of the Xia Empire had entered the Irrawaddy River, all the towns along the middle and lower reaches of the Irrawaddy River had been occupied, and the Xia Emperor's ** team was advancing towards Mandalay; Moreover, the port of Mawlamyine has been lost, and the British army is facing each other across the river.

At noon, the figure of the Xia Emperor's ** ship appeared in the outer waters of Yangon, and Yangon fell into the encirclement of the Xia Empire.

The Viceroy of India, Gilbert Eliot-Murray Kiningmund, the 4th Earl of Minto, has been in a bad mood since yesterday, when the Xia Empire blockaded the Straits of Malacca, and yesterday sent troops to wait in the Malay Peninsula.6 3o He was woken up before dawn, Burma was attacked by the Xia Empire, and then the news of the Xia Empire's attack continued to come from all over the country, and he sought reinforcements everywhere.

He can ignore other places, but Burma Province is within his jurisdiction, and he can't help it.

He had no choice but to order Lieutenant General Aldershot, commander-in-chief of the Indian garrison, and Major General Douglas Haig, chief of staff, to negotiate countermeasures.

The two generals did not want to send troops to Burma, and the governor's order was not easy to dismiss directly, you must know that without the protection of the navy, you can only take 6 routes, and now I don't know how many officers and soldiers the Xia Empire has in Burma. Therefore, the two generals suggested waiting for the time being, and then deciding on the number of officers and soldiers to be sent after the news became clearer.

Knowing that the two generals had accepted his order to send troops, Governor Kiningmond was relieved to wait for the news to be clear, and immediately ordered Major General Douglas Hague, Chief of Staff of the Indian Army, to lead troops to Burma to eliminate the invading Xia Empire officers and soldiers.

By noon, the news from Yangon was very bad, the sea off Yangon had been blocked by the Xia Empire's navy, and it was not clear how many Xia Empire's officers and soldiers had entered Burma.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, after the 9th Guards Division boarded the 6th and rested, it and the mercenaries began to attack the north shore, with the assistance of destroyers, and the guns of the three escort destroyers opened fire first, "Boom, boom, boom!" The shells fired by the destroyer exploded on the position of the British and Indian troops in Madaban, and several rounds of shelling blew up the fortifications built by the British and Indian troops on the north bank, although the casualties were not many, but the British and Indian troops had seen this kind of formation, and they usually honored the backers of the British, and it was okay to bully the indigenous people, but they had not experienced a real battle, and soon after the shelling, the British and Indian troops began to flee unorganized to the north.

The mercenaries and the Guards Division successfully crossed the Nu River and began to pursue along the route of the Anglo-Indian army's escape.

The panicked Anglo-Indian troops lost their weapons and ammunition all the way, and they all became trophies for mercenaries.

On 3 September, the 9th Army reached the outside of Rangoon and completed the encirclement of Rangoon with the 4O Army, at which point all the towns on the outskirts of Rangoon had been occupied by the 4O Army, and Rangoon became an isolated city.

Looking out of the binoculars, the black pressure was full of Xia Empire officers and soldiers, more than 100,000 people, and the news was reported to the Governor's Office of Calcutta, and the Governor learned that there were so many enemies that he dispelled his idea of sending reinforcements to Burma.

Burma has always been a vassal state of China, even when it was colonized by the British, it also had to pay tribute to the Huaxia country, and the army of the Xia Empire came, in their minds, it was to liberate them; Besides, 1o out of 9 workers in Yangon are Indian immigrants, and it is the Indians who have taken their jobs, so the Burmese have come to regard the Indians as enemies as well; The Burmese continued to create chaos in the city of Yangon, and the British and Indian troops who fled from Mawlamyine talked about the terrifying artillery fire of the Xia Emperor's ** team, so that the morale of the British and Indian troops in the city was completely lost, and they could no longer organize an effective defense.

There were no reinforcements outside, no soldiers to fight within, and the Burma provincial administration was helpless.

Admiral Xu Dong sent soldiers to shout forward, surrender and not kill, so that the defenders in the city saw a chance to live.

After three days of siege under intense psychological pressure, on the morning of 6 September, the British magistrate in Rangoon ordered the defenders to lay down their arms and announce their surrender.

Xu Haidong and others successfully entered Yangon City, saving Yangon City from being damaged by artillery fire. Xu Haidong asked the British magistrate to send a telegram to the defenders of Mandalay, ordering them to surrender, as a sign of his meritorious service, that he could not be imprisoned in a prisoner camp, that he could continue to live in the city of Yangon, and that he would be treated as a diplomat, and that he would not have to participate in the labor like other prisoners.

Under a powerful temptation, the British magistrate finally succumbed.

On the afternoon of September 6, the defenders of Mandalay also received an order to surrender to the Xia Di ** team.

At this point, the Xia Emperor's ** team completely occupied Burma, completed the initial goal of the campaign, cut off the retreat of the British army in Singapore and other places, and there would be no reinforcements to rescue them, and from then on, the Pacific region east of the Strait of Malacca would be the sphere of influence of the Xia Empire. 8